Lecture 1: Vocabulary By now all of you are familiar with most of the more common vocabulary terms and phrases used in education, such as: Bloom’s Taxonomy, goals & objectives, pedagogy, and literally hundreds or thousands of others. Many or most of these are reflected in one excellent source on educational vocabulary, The School Wise Press (http://pub.schoolwisepress.com/smart/dict/dict.html).

Lecture 1: Vocabulary

By now all of you are familiar with most of the more common vocabulary terms and phrases used in education, such as: Bloom’s Taxonomy, goals & objectives, pedagogy, and literally hundreds or thousands of others. Many or most of these are reflected in one excellent source on educational vocabulary, The School Wise Press (http://pub.schoolwisepress.com/smart/dict/dict.html).

In Figure 2 above, Catherine Flippen discusses the use of such vocabulary in her posting entitled, “An Ed Tech Vocabulary Lesson (What do all those buzz words mean?)”. Look at those words – blended, flipped, BYOD, MOOC, gamification …… bet you don’t use those everyday as a classroom teacher. RIGHT? And if you do, do you REALLY understand what they mean and/or what technology tool or trend or application they reflect? Do you MOOC? Do you Doodle? Do you LMS? See what I mean?

This is from http://www.techterms.com/ where you will find all kinds of terms defined and concepts illustrated as they relate to technology. Look at the image below from the site. See the alphabet at the top?

Figure 3: from http://www.techterms.com/You can click on the alphabet at the top of this site and see definitions for the terms.

______[1] This means your technology teacher, your tech coach or tech integration specialist and anyone else who uses technology and/or is a tech ‘geek’ (in the most positive meaning of the term!).

One of the cool things about this site, http://www.techterms.com/, is that it includes these two sub-sets of terms and expressions:

As you see in Figure 7 above, there is a section entitled ‘newbie terms’. In the following figure (Figure 8: Newbie Terms) and Figure 6, Common Expressions, I have highlighted in yellow some of the terms that you probably want to review. In Figure 6, those terms are more or less considered ‘common knowledge’ and just a regular part of the language --- though for some of us ‘of a certain age’, we may need some remediation. If you think you might be in that group, you should take a look at the Common Expressions part of Netlingo! And in Figure 8, below, you will find what are referred to here as “newbie terms’. You will definitely want to run through those terms before you get too far into the class. Most or all of you may have already had a tech class in which Web 2.0 tools (and terms) were addressed, but even so, you may want to make a ‘drive by’ review of the “Newbie Terms” there on the Netlingo page. We will be discussing many of the things found there in the Newbie terms without necessarily defining them, so keep this link bookmarked so you can get to it!

CONCLUDING REMARKS: This lecture begins the process for understanding the terms we will be using in discussing teaching and learning with technology. But let me conclude with a warning --- never sit back and congratulate yourself on knowing ALL technology terms – it will not happen! The things change too quickly. BUT ….. You can try to be sure that you are keeping up with enough vocabulary to understand the professional literature you might read about any of these themes:·improving and enriching teaching through technology·using technology products created by students as assessments·engaging and empowering students to engage in collaborations and explorations. Now --- go on to Topic 1, Lecture 2.